Crystal Mountain Gondola

Hello friends!

We decided to finally head to Crystal Mountain to

take the gondola up the mountain to view Mt. Adams

and Mt. Rainier and Mt. St. Helens.

The above photo is sitting right in front of Mt. Rainier

at a restaurant at the top of the gondola.

Here is my friend Ceri as we board the gondola.

It takes 12 mins to get to the top and goes up

2900ft. Once to the top you are at 7500ft, across

from you stands Mt. Rainier that sits at 14,500 ft so

you are half way there!

We are nearing the top here,

We made it to the top!

The views are spectacular!

360 degrees in all directions and views of all three mountains,

just unbelievable!

Look at these cute inviting chairs....

Have a seat....

I think we will!

There are so many hiking trails once you get

to the top and they have complimentary 

walking poles for you to use.

It's a must visit whether you are local

or coming to the PNW to visit.

Timeless Tropical

Aloha again friends!

This set just gets better and better!

This is an easy one,

punch out from copy paper with a large circle punch and

lay over the first piece of white paper.

Using a brush blender and the Bumblebee ink pad

lightly color the sun. 

I used Soft Suede ink to stamp the palm tree.

Cut the crumb cake card stock to make the "sand"

Layer the card with baja breeze and crumb cake. 

To top it off add the salutation by using circle punches

and stamping the "hello" 

  

                                  Timeless Tropical -  HERE

Happy 4th of July!

Happy Birthday America!

Let freedom ring!

Went out to the yard and found some flowers

to make some cute 4th arrangements to 

leave on neighbors porches.  

I have some white phlox growing and some red bee balm.

Popped them into a can and added a flag. 

And this cutest little bug showed up.....

Wishing you all a safe and happy fourth!

4th of July decor

Let freedom ring!

Here comes the 4th of July!

Check out how I used the wood bead garland to decorate for

the 4th. 

The cute little American banner is from 

Hobby Lobby for $7.50.

What are your plans for the 4th?

We have just walked through some unprecedented heat here in our area

creating extreme dry conditions and for the first time in 

years will most likely not have any fireworks of course

to keep things safe. 

One tradition my husband and I have created over

the last few years is playing a round of 9 holes

of golf the morning of the 4th and then

meeting up with family or friends later in the day. 

Hoping everyone has a safe and fun 4th! 

Timeless Tropical

Hello!

This morning I am sharing a mix of the new Timeless Tropical 

with the new Paper Pumpkin Expression in Color.

The green cards in this kit are a smaller version of the

standard size cards which I am really liking. 

The evergreen card stock comes in the kit as well as

the water colored background piece.  This makes for

a really easy card to put together.   Just layer the two

colors, stamp the two tropical flowers on white card stock,

cut them and pop them up.  The iridescent sequins, and little tag 

and stamp also come in the kit.  What a win win!

Very simple monochromatic card. 

Have fun creating!

Funny Towels

Good Morning!

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

We have been in the triple digits here in the PNW, something

that is very rare and something we are truly not equipped for!

It has only been in the 100's three times in the last

100 years here so this is quite unprecedented.

Today we are expected to reach 115 and above in some areas!

I hopped on to share with you to funnies, 

my two top selling kitchen towels from the shop.

The one above is by far the fav;

"Stupid Dishes"

and the one below 

" Stove for Display only"

I hope you find them as funny as I do,

below is just a carousel of others words

that I have on my towels.

They are great gifts for weddings, showers, birthdays,

anything!

and restocked for your shopping. 

So head over and grab one or two for you

"Home Sweet Home"

and stay cool out there! 

Aloha Saturday

Aloha!

Aloha saturday friends!

Bringing you another card from the beautiful Timeless Tropical stamp set. And this one is a fun one to give a try.

It has a smaller note sized card and then an embossed envelope.

Take a look at the bottom half of the envelope,

you can see where I ran the envelope through the 

embosser to add the 3D leaves.

On the top are the plumeria flowers stamped. 

Take a look on how to make this,

start with two standard sized envelopes and lick 

them both shut.

start with one of the envelopes and using a pair of 

decorater scissors or a paper cutter that has decorative

cutters, cut 2" down from the top of the envelope where you 

closed it.

The top half of the envelope you will stamp and the lower

piece you will not use. Now take the other envelope and do the same thing, but at the top only cut away 1/2", this is the piece you either run through the Big Shot

or you can use a corregator which you can see below.

This is what the corrugator looks like,

it creates weaves in your paper.

Another option is to use the Big Shot with any

of your embossing folders which is what I did. 

Add a small card that can be slipped into this cute envelope,

I closed mine off with some green twine. 

I hope you give these envelopes a try!

You won't stop making them!

Aloha!